kendo-mobile

I am new to mobile applications. I am basically from a web development platform. I am just playing around mobile frameworks like App Framework, LungoJS, Jquery Mobile, kendo etc to gain some knowledge in this vertical. The app I am developing is still in UI level. All I need is to fetch data from the server and populate in my app. I need some ideas to establish server communication between the smart device and the server. My questions are What kind of server needed for mobile applications ? A cloud or a regular web server is enough ? What are the ways to connect the app with the server ? ( on

The start page of my application will have a search box, and a list of useful links below the searchbox (favorites etc) When someone types text in the searchbox, I want the favorites to disappear, and only the search results to be visible. I've implemented a proof of concept here using a mobile list view: $("#local-filterable-listview").kendoMobileListView({ dataSource: dataSource, template: $("#mobile-listview-filtering-template").text(), filterable: { field: "ProductName", operator: "startswith" }, virtualViewSize: 100, endlessScroll: true }); I'm considering instead of setting the display